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Mauro picks up fallen SCOTUSblog banner

By Mark Obbie

Thanks to Legal Times' Tony Mauro, I now have a more-than-adequate substitute to link to for the missing Lyle Denniston analysis of the Supreme Court's possible role in the financial crisis. Mauro's story is more traditionally and explicitly sourced than Denniston's off-the-top-of-his-brainy-head article. And Mauro's starts with a colorful anecdote and is littered with authoritative sources and background. It's curious that the major newspapers haven't, so far as I have noticed, delved deeply into the prospects for legal challenges to the plan (which, I grant you, is a moving target, but still). Maybe now their reporters will jump in, after reading Legal Times this week. Or maybe it'll just show up as a graf or two in the soon-to-come curtain-raisers for the new Supreme Court term, noting only that that's one big controversy not on the docket. It's worth more than that, I think.P.S. -- I'm feeling guilty for the low posting volume here lately. Too much real work to do! Thank goodness I now have an able backup. (Reminder of the disclosure over there on the left rail of the blog: When posts are unsigned, they're by me -- Mark Obbie. For the past couple of weeks, Newhouse grad student Rohan Mascarenhas has been posting his creation, The Docket, to increase the scope of the stories noted here.)

Full post as published by Lawbeat on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).